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Recommendation 51

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The Probation Institute added another potential cause, arguing that “the decline in use of community...

Conclusion
The Probation Institute added another potential cause, arguing that “the decline in use of community penalties can be partially explained by ‘prisoncentricity’ as a dominant theme in political discourse”, defining “prisoncentricity” as “the dominance of thinking that imprisonment is the only real penalty.” 78
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